New Australian Communist

[The Epitome of Justice]

Hello, new Australian communist here.

I happen to consider myself the opposite of a Social-Darwinist in belief so I happen to also be a militant anti-nazi and anti social-darwinist as they go against what I stand for.

I am currently serving the Communist Party of Australia(current) which I plan to join, it broke off and survived the previous one that declined and dissolved in 1991 for some reason. It's a shame that they are no longer the major left party of Australia. I hope it can one day reclaim this position from the Greens.

In Australia right now we have who are called the Abbott government, an extremist bunch of right wingers in power and many of us hate it. They are privatising everything and using taxation to find military spending and control programs such as data retention. They also seek to combine state and corporate powers aside from the Palmer United Party led by a corporation owner who literally wants it too. Fortunately the Abbott government are giving the right wing a terrible name for years to come.

The class collaboration, reformist and neoliberal politics could also suffer disillusion. A fragmented left and declining trade union may be backfiring and hurting the economy now according to a SEARCH foundation article.

Btw if you live in Australia they have also created a Young Communist League here if you are interested in joining, it started last year because of the pressures of the capitalist oppression under the Abbott government which you can discover more about by reading about it on the Young Communist League of Australia Wikipedia page with the link included.

I'm still studying but plan to meet up once this last year is finished.

[Q]

Welcome :)

If you have political questions, you can ask them in the Learning forum. That's why it's there after all!

If you have questions about your account, don't hesitate to send me a PM or ask here.

What kind of bunch are the CPA exactly? In the Netherlands, the NCPN is a 'Marxist-Leninist' splinter from the old CPN (which dissolved into the Greens in the late eighties). Also, what attracts you in the CPA as opposed to other groups on the far left, like Socialist Alternative or the Socialist Party?

[The Epitome of Justice]

Welcome :)

If you have political questions, you can ask them in the Learning forum. That's why it's there after all!

If you have questions about your account, don't hesitate to send me a PM or ask here.

What kind of bunch are the CPA exactly? In the Netherlands, the NCPN is a 'Marxist-Leninist' splinter from the old CPN (which dissolved into the Greens in the late eighties). Also, what attracts you in the CPA as opposed to other groups on the far left, like Socialist Alternative or the Socialist Party?

CPA was the first communist movement I found. I'm open to things like Socialist Alternative and Socialist Alliance.

But I was told that Socialist Alternative are "revisionist" or something by people. Mainly I'm in CPA because I think it might be more revolutionary. Not many in Australia completely understand Marxist theory yet.

I just hope one day Australia can have a United Left once again.

[Kingfish]

They are very similar to the Communist Party of America albeit they have yet to shill for the labor party yet. Their goals are the usual reformist ones with their principle goal being to form a leftwing coalition/popular front government. Not particularly revolutionary or large presence on the protest scene though they do have a good bookstore and other miscellaneous trinkets they inherited from their more influential past.



Take a gander at this


(http://www.cpa.org.au/about-us/02-an-introduction-to-the-cpa.html)
http://www.cpa.org.au/about-us/02-an-introduction-to-the-cpa.html

[Palmares]

Welcome to the forum. :)

Back in my commie days, I did look into CPA. Got some shirts from them! :lol:

But then I realised they don't really do anything, so then as a result I was involved with Socialist Alliance (SA) for a little while. Had my flirtations with Socialist Alternative (SAlt) too. Main diff I knew about at the time, was that SA was less sectarian (being an "alliance" for one), but also supported Venezuela, Cuba, etc, whereas SAlt didn't. I think there's unsurprisingly been some splits since then. And sometimes you'll run into the Sparts (whose number is less than what you could count on one hand) at some demos trying to sell their paper.

This was all many years ago though, so I'm pretty outta the commie loop these days.

[The Epitome of Justice]

Welcome to the forum. :)

Back in my commie days, I did look into CPA. Got some shirts from them! :lol:

But then I realised they don't really do anything, so then as a result I was involved with Socialist Alliance (SA) for a little while. Had my flirtations with Socialist Alternative (SAlt) too. Main diff I knew about at the time, was that SA was less sectarian (being an "alliance" for one), but also supported Venezuela, Cuba, etc, whereas SAlt didn't. I think there's unsurprisingly been some splits since then. And sometimes you'll run into the Sparts (whose number is less than what you could count on one hand) at some demos trying to sell their paper.

This was all many years ago though, so I'm pretty outta the commie loop these days.

Did you ever check out the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) secretive one which is known to work using unions and strikes?

[1xAntifa]

The lack of a viable leftwing party in Australian politics has allowed the sustained shift to the right since the Hawke government 1983-1991.

The Hawke government gave us the first bout of neo-liberal restructuring including asset sales, floating the dollar, higher education fees, the destruction of union shopfloor organisation that directly contributed to the decline of unionism and the subsequent workplace 'bargaining' arrangements. Hawke also wanted to deploy the USA's MX nuclear missiles in South Australia in 1985/86. It was only the Reagan administrations decision to cancel the MX programme that prevented Australia stationing nukes on its soil. Keating basically gave us mandatory detention for asylum seekers, whilst the decade of Howards neo-conservatism cranked up the harshness of these policies and the accompanying rhetoric.

The implementation of the national security state since 9/11 has seen the erosion of civil liberties. Militarised policing is now the norm with each 'critical incident' receiving a standardised counter-terrorist response regardless of the facts of any given incident; i.e. a protester can expect the same treatment as a suspected terrorist despite the significant differences in the 'threat' that each pose to society.

The end result has been the race by the Liberal/Labour sects to appeal to the basest instincts of the electorate with the co-responding increase in Islamophobic sentiment, vilification of asylum seekers, welfare 'bludgers' and Indigenous peoples rights, unionists and xenophobia generally.

The Socialist Alliance sound like dated sixties Marxists, to my mind, and lack any sort of public profile. Knowing one of the SA's 'leading lights' personally didn't help as he was strictly Bolshevik. I don't believe in dictatorship period. As for the Greens being lefties, don't make me laugh. They only appear somewhat leftish in comparison with the very right-wing political climate in oz. Whilst Hanson-Young's stance on asylum seekers is laudable, the Greens have done sfa in regards to their alleged anti-war stance and their silence on torture, Hicks and Habib is astounding.

In the end, its the principles and ideas that you will personally make a stand for that matter, not the organisational minutae of party fealty.

But then, I am of an anarchist bent....

[The Epitome of Justice]

The lack of a viable leftwing party in Australian politics has allowed the sustained shift to the right since the Hawke government 1983-1991.

The Hawke government gave us the first bout of neo-liberal restructuring including asset sales, floating the dollar, higher education fees, the destruction of union shopfloor organisation that directly contributed to the decline of unionism and the subsequent workplace 'bargaining' arrangements. Hawke also wanted to deploy the USA's MX nuclear missiles in South Australia in 1985/86. It was only the Reagan administrations decision to cancel the MX programme that prevented Australia stationing nukes on its soil. Keating basically gave us mandatory detention for asylum seekers, whilst the decade of Howards neo-conservatism cranked up the harshness of these policies and the accompanying rhetoric.

The implementation of the national security state since 9/11 has seen the erosion of civil liberties. Militarised policing is now the norm with each 'critical incident' receiving a standardised counter-terrorist response regardless of the facts of any given incident; i.e. a protester can expect the same treatment as a suspected terrorist despite the significant differences in the 'threat' that each pose to society.

The end result has been the race by the Liberal/Labour sects to appeal to the basest instincts of the electorate with the co-responding increase in Islamophobic sentiment, vilification of asylum seekers, welfare 'bludgers' and Indigenous peoples rights, unionists and xenophobia generally.

The Socialist Alliance sound like dated sixties Marxists, to my mind, and lack any sort of public profile. Knowing one of the SA's 'leading lights' personally didn't help as he was strictly Bolshevik. I don't believe in dictatorship period. As for the Greens being lefties, don't make me laugh. They only appear somewhat leftish in comparison with the very right-wing political climate in oz. Whilst Hanson-Young's stance on asylum seekers is laudable, the Greens have done sfa in regards to their alleged anti-war stance and their silence on torture, Hicks and Habib is astounding.

In the end, its the principles and ideas that you will personally make a stand for that matter, not the organisational minutae of party fealty.

But then, I am of an anarchist bent...."Dictatorship of the proletariat" is not in the literal sense. It means a society dictated by the proletariat, the group instead by an oligarchy of corporation owners.

What will it take for politics to swing back into the left? Now that right wing economics, everyone knows has been causing massive destruction to the economy?

What about The Labour Coalition party also? Though I have no views on their ideas, they are economic nationalists and want a society that is impartial, equal but not one you can leech from however. Sorry if posted late but didn't want to remake.

[The Epitome of Justice]

They are very similar to the Communist Party of America albeit they have yet to shill for the labor party yet. Their goals are the usual reformist ones with their principle goal being to form a leftwing coalition/popular front government. Not particularly revolutionary or large presence on the protest scene though they do have a good bookstore and other miscellaneous trinkets they inherited from their more influential past.What about the CPA(M-L)? The last survivor of the old CPA which split from the 60s that also acts alot like the old CPA? Have you looked into Ted Hills' works and etc?